Coronary calcium artery scoring for support of shared decision making in adults who do not have a history of cardiovascular disease (CACS Study) dataset

This dataset includes 1629 participants aged 45-79; living in Australia, who never had a heart attack or stroke nor been diagnosed with a CVD. This randomised experiment aimed to test different content options amongst consumers with varying health literacy. A 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design tested how to present risk assessment and management options (basic vs detailed) and uncertainty (implicit vs explicit) to enhance understanding to different final risk outcome groups (low vs high). The data includes participants' demographics and health literacy as well as their responses to various information (either basic description of CVD risk factors/management options or detailed description of the triage method and intervention effects). The file type is .XLS